ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,751, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for signaling image information" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by which a decoding device decodes an image, according the present disclosure, comprises a flag related to whether there is sub-picture information and a flag related to whether a sub-picture includes a single slice, wherein the flag related to whether there is sub-picture information corresponds to a value of 0, and the flag related to w...